Guy Vander Jagt Guy Vander Jagt was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan. He was born in Cadillac, Michigan on August 26, 1931. He began preaching at the Tustin Presbyterian Church while a high school student. He graduated from Hope College in Holland, in 1953, and won several state and national public speaking competitions. He next attended Yale Divinity School, graduating in 1957. He also studied for a year at the University of Bonn, Germany on a Rotary Foundation Fellowship. Vander Jagt next went back to school to study law at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. but soon transferred to the law school at the University of Michigan, where he received his J.D. in 1960. He began practicing law in Grand Rapids.
